Editorial»

The boomerang effect, or the karma

May 16th, 2013 at 9:00 PM
Despite the ‘nonaggression’ treaty signed with Victor Ponta days before obtaining the nomination to the office of premier in December last year, Traian Basescu cannot...

Business»

FIC: Export-based  strategy for  sustainable growth

FIC: Export-based strategy for sustainable growth

May 16th, 2013 at 9:00 PM
Resuming and supporting economic growth is the main challenge ahead of Romanian political decision-makers, but the model of development counting on capital in-flows to finance...

Politics»

Nominated prosecutors officially  take offices

Nominated prosecutors officially take offices

May 16th, 2013 at 9:00 PM
Basescu mandates Ponta to attend the European Council at the end of May.  The president announced that he promulgated the new law for accelerating retrocessions and the...

Social»

Sibiu: Doctor arrested for taking bribe from 175 patients now sent to court

May 16th, 2013 at 9:00 PM
The doctor from the Sibiu County Pensions House arrested for bribery in March has been referred to court by the Sibiu prosecutors on the charge of demanding and cashing a...

World»

Main party in Bulgaria seeks  to void election result

Main party in Bulgaria seeks to void election result

May 16th, 2013 at 9:00 PM
Bulgaria’s biggest political party has said it will seek to have the result of Sunday’s deadlocked election cancelled on grounds of a violation, BBC reports. Ex-Prime...

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FIC: Export-based strategy for sustainable growth

Resuming and supporting economic growth is the main challenge ahead of Romanian political decision-makers, but the model of development counting on capital in-flows to finance consumption must be replaced with an export-based strategy, reads this year’s edition of the White Book published by the Foreign Investors Council (FIC). The Council says the resumption and support [...]

Thirty-two Bucharest museums stay open on Long Night of Museums

Originated by the French Ministry of Culture and Communication nine years ago, the Long Night of Museums is celebrated by nearly 3,000 museums across Europe.In order to better organize their visiting route, visitors are invited this year too to use the electronic map containing the Long Night of Museums Bucharest program. The map is printed [...]

Main party in Bulgaria seeks to void election result

Bulgaria’s biggest political party has said it will seek to have the result of Sunday’s deadlocked election cancelled on grounds of a violation, BBC reports. Ex-Prime Minister Boiko Borisov said his centre-right Gerb party’s chances had been damaged by a “gross violation of the law” on the eve of the polls. State prosecutors had announced [...]

Nominated prosecutors officially take offices

Basescu mandates Ponta to attend the European Council at the end of May.  The president announced that he promulgated the new law for accelerating retrocessions and the issuing of the decree for the nomination of all six chief prosecutors. President Traian Basescu said Wednesday in a press conference held at the Cotroceni Palace that he decided that [...]

Sinai kidnapping: Egyptian soldiers and police seized

Seven members of the Egyptian security forces have been seized by unidentified kidnappers in the Sinai Peninsula, Egyptian officials say. The three policemen and four soldiers were captured while traveling in minibuses in northern Sinai, east of the city of Arish. The kidnappers are said to be demanding the release from prison of jailed relatives. [...]

Gov’t reports ex-Ministers Funeriu and Vreme to DNA

The Prime Minister’s Control Corps has reported a EUR 5 M damage. The two former ministers are accused of intellectual forgery and abuse of office in connection with the signing of notes for the lease of software licences to be used in schools, based on which almost EUR 8 M – EUR 5 M more [...]

Nitu on Revolution files: There’s no special approach other than that stipulated by law

Tiberiu Nitu, Romania’s new attorney general, stated on Thursday, referring to the 1989 Revolution files for which President Traian Basescu asked for clarifications, that there is no “special approach” for them or an approach other than the one stipulated by law. “We will focus on these files and on other files. There isn’t a special approach [...]

Danish minister: Copenhagen supported Romania’s Schengen accession and will maintain this position

Nikolai Wammen, Denmark’s Minister for European Affairs, has stated that his country has supported Romania’s and Bulgaria’s two-stage accession to the Schengen Area, adding that this position will remain valid and hopes a compromise will be found in this sense by the end of this year.“Denmark’s position is clear, we want Romania to accede to [...]

FM Corlatean and Spanish counterpart agree to upgrade bilateral relations to strategic partnership

Foreign Minister Titus Corlatean and his Spanish counterpart, Jose Manuel Garcia Margallo, who visited Bucharest, to upgrade the bilateral relations to the level of strategic partnership, which presupposes annual contacts at a top level as well as an action plan for developing cooperation. ‘I officially proposed to the minister to examine together the situation and work [...]

Johannis: I barely joined PNL that ANI has remembered me, has found a case of incompatibility

“ANI is making confusion in my case,” the Mayor of Sibiu added. PNL First Vice President Klaus Johannis stated that he “barely joined” PNL that the National Integrity Agency (ANI) “has remembered” him and “has found again a case of incompatibility,” pointing out that the Agency previously found him incompatible in 2009 after he announced [...]